Nine resident companies of the Skolkovo Foundation will feature at Seoul Business Week, a major industry gathering held September 8-10. The event brings together over 500 members of the Korean and Russian scientific and business communities.
Skolkovo’s startups will showcase their innovative technologies at the Business Week expo, take part in the conference and hold meetings with potential partners and local investors.
A few of the companies, such as ABBYY LS, Prognoz, ASD Technologies, already have a significant local presence and will look to strengthen their foothold in the Korean market and beyond. Their current partners include giants like Samsung, LG Electronics and LG CNS.
Media representatives will be given access to a special press conference at which Skolkovo companies will pitch their products alongside startups from the Russian Venture Company portfolio.
The press conference will be held on September 8 at 12:00 at the Grand Ambassador Hotel, 287, Dongho-Ro, Seoul.
Igor Bogachev, VP, Executive Director of the IT Cluster, Skolkovo Foundation:“Korean companies are renowned leaders in microelectronics, and Russian companies can add value with potentially industry-leading software solutions. It’s the ideal time to integrate unique programming algorithms with innovative electronics in new gadgets. The most promising fields in the IT industry include business analytics, the Internet of Things and robotics, and these are all areas where we can expect significant growth in the coming years.”
List of Skolkovo’s companies taking part in the Seoul Business Week:
Company
Technology
ABBYY LS
Global leader in the development of document recognition, content capture and language-based technologies and solutions that integrate across the entire information lifecycle.
Prognoz
Modern business intelligence platform for the creation of information systems and applications as independent solutions.
iRidium Mobile
B2B/B2C multi-platform software suite for Home Automation, Building Management and Internet of Things market.
ExoAtlet
An exoskeleton for rehabilitation and social adaptation used for rehabilitation of people with disorder of locomotory function of lower limbs through replicating walking biomechanics, ease of usage, affordability and used technologies.
MobilityLab/WorksPad
WorksPad solution drives mobile workforce to boost its productivity by using innovative approach to communications and collaboration. WorksPad combines the benefits of mobile devices, such as ease of use «on the run», together with the familiar PC benefits, such as rich functionality.
C3D Labs
The company develops and markets the C3D geometric modeling kernel, which is used in software products as the component responsible for geometric model construction and constructed model control.
Intersoft Eurasia/DO-Ra
DO-RA – dosimeter-radiometer for smartphones and computers, intelligent technologies for environmental monitoring.
Luminescent Innovative Technologies
Research and development of novel functional materials for applications in high energy physics (plastic scintillators, wavelengthshifters) and organic optoelectronics (organic light-emitting diodes, solar cells, photodetectors).
ASD Technologies
ASD Technologies is the developer of Cloudike, official supplier of solutions based on Amazon Web Services, and integrator of OpenStack.